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T. P. WORTHINGTON.

SEWER VENTILATOR.

Patented Jan. 15, 1889.

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SEWER VENTILATOR. No. 396,187 j Patented Jan. 15, 1889.

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THOMAS P. XVORTHINGTON, OF SOUTHSHORE, BLACKPOOL, COUNTY OF LAN- CASTER, ENGLAND.

SEWER-VENTILATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,187, dated January 15, 1889.

Application filed March 19, 1888. Serial'No. 267,641. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. WORTHING- TON, of Southshore, Blackpool, county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewer-Ventilators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved sewer- V'entilator, and has for its-object to provide a simple and inexpensive means of ventilation, whereby the gases will be thoroughly disinfected and carried off, passed through a lighted lamp, and consumed.

The invention consists in combining with a tubular lamp-post, pillar, or standard a disinfecting-chamber independent of the post, and in the construction of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lamp post or pillar having myimprovement applied, the disinfectant-chamber being in section; and Fig. 2 is a similar view, illustrating the lamp as in section also. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the chamber-partition, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through the same.

The object of the present invention is to provide a means of attaching to a lamp-post, pillar, or standard a disinfecting-chamber and avoid an unnecessary enlargement of the base when said post, pillar, or standard is to be used for ornamental purposes in addition to its normal function of supporting a lamp.

In carrying out the invention, A represents a hollow post, pillar, or standard, which may be made in plain or ornamental design, having mounted upon its upper end a lamp, B, which lamp is provided with a closed bottom, except preferably at a point immediately above the post and at one side of the center.

In the center of the lamp top or cap I) a conductor, 1), is secured, consisting of a downwardly-projecting tube with mouth immediately over the jet or jets, adapted to burn the air and gas in passing, the said conductor being placed in alignment with the center opening in the lamp, the burners 7J2, and likewise the bore of the posts, the said gas jet or jets also answering their formal function of giving light.

Over the top orcap of the lamp a series of three (more or less) deflecting-plates, D, are supported, spaced a suitable distance from each other and from the lamp-top, the inner plates of which series are provided withacentral aperture, d, aligning the conductor b.

Preferably beneath the level of the ground, walk, or pavement a box, E, is placed, having a detachable lid, 6, the said lid, which may be ornamental or plain, being so located as that the upper surface will preferably be flush 6 5 with the surface of the ground, walk, or pavement, as illustrated.

The box E, designed as a disinfecting-chamber, is connected at one end in any suitable manner with the lamp-post, and at the bottom, preferably at the end,with the sewer-pipe E. A distance above the bottom of the disinfecting-chamber E a horizontal perforated partition, 6, is supported, and from said partition a series of grates, F, having ledges ff, are placed upward, preferably at an inclination to the rear, which perforated grates extend essentially from one end of the chamber to the other, and are of such length as to leave an opening between their upper ends and the cover of the chamber, and of n i *lth to go from side to side of chamber. The various grates are retained in position by lugs H, cast solid with the box, against which they rest; The ledges ff are transversely placed on. the 85. grates, thus forming pans to hold either liquid or solid disinfectants, the perforations allowing the sewer-air to pass in contact therewith.

In operation it will be observed that the gases entering the chamberE pass up through the perforated partition and grates F, over or through the disinfectant material, and up the post, impinging upon the flame, where they are consumed, the products finding an exit through the upper opening in the lamp.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.1. In a sewer-ventilator,a grate provided Witha series of ledges, forming pans for holding disinfectants, and apertnred between the ledges, substantially as described.

2. In a seWer-ventilator, the combination, with a tubular 1amp-p0st, of a chamber arranged between the lamp and the sewer, and a series of grates arranged in the chamber and provided with a series of ledges, forming pans for holding disinfectants, substantially as herein shown and described.

The combination, with a tubular lamp post, standard, or pillar, a lamp provided with an apert-nred cap, and the burn er of said lamp,

of an exterior disinfectant; chamber connected at one end with the post and adapted for connection at the opposite end to a sewer provided with perforated partitions above the seWer-connection, and a series of grates and supporting-ledges forming pans or receptaeles projected from the partition adapted to 20 retain disinfectants, substantially as shown and described.

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